Cantaloupe Island (album)

Cantaloupe Island
Compilation album by Jean-Luc Ponty
Released	1976
Recorded	1969
Genre	Jazz fusion, crossover jazz
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Dick Bock
Jean-Luc Ponty chronology
Cantaloupe Island (1976) Le Voyage: The Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology (1996)Le Voyage: The Jean-Luc Ponty Anthology1996

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All About Jazz	(favorable)
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Cantaloupe Island is an album by French jazz fusion artist Jean-Luc Ponty. It was first released in 1976 on Blue Note Records. It combines two previously issued albums: King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa and Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio, both recorded in 1969 for the World Pacific label.

Reissues

• Cantaloupe Island was digitally re-mastered and reissued on CD by BGO in 2006.

Track listing

All songs by Frank Zappa unless otherwise noted.

1. "King Kong" – 4:58
2. "Idiot Bastard Son" – 4:01
3. "Twenty Small Cigars" – 5:35
4. "How Would You Like to Have a Head Like That" (Ponty) – 7:18
5. "Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra" – 19:25
6. "America Drinks and Goes Home" – 2:42
7. "Foosh" (George Duke) – 9:01
8. "Pamukkale" (Dauner) – 6:33
9. "Contact" (Ponty) – 7:15
10. "Cantaloupe Island" (Herbie Hancock) – 8:28
11. "Starlight, Starbright" (Jean-Bernard Eisinger) – 9:23

Personnel

• Jean-Luc Ponty – violin, electric violin, baritone violin
• Frank Zappa – guitar
• Art Tripp – drums
• Ian Underwood – tenor sax
• Ernie Watts – alto and tenor sax
• George Duke – piano
• Gene Estes – percussion, vibraphone
• Dick Berk – drums
• Wilton Felder – bass
• John Guerin – drums
• John Heard – bass
• Buell Neidlinger – bass
• Milton Thomas – viola
• Vincent DeRosa – French horn, descant
• Donald Christlieb – bassoon
• Gene Cipriano – English horn, oboe
• Arthur Maebe – flugelhorn, French horn, tuben
• Jonathan Meyer – flute
• Harold Bemko – cello, electronic sounds

Production notes

• Richard Bock – producer
• Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, conductor
• Ian Underwood– conductor
• Leonard Feather – liner notes
• David Brand – engineer
• Dick Klune – engineer
• Andrew Thompson – remastering
• Michael Cuscuna – reissue producer